Archives - 10 September 2011, Saturday

Ms Lee was eating oranges when she is said to have choked and fainted. She died on Tuesday. A 19-year-old student died on Tuesday, three days after she apparently choked on two slices of orange and lost consciousness. Friends of polytechnic student Ailsie Lee Qiao Qi told The Straits ...

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A Spanish player of Las Conquistadoras (The Conquerors) is tackled by naked rugby players of the Nude Blacks during their match. Image has been censored for graphic content. -- PHOTO: REUTERS DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand's premier naked rugby team has been exposed. The Dune...

Singtel has revealed that the disruption in its 3G mobile network earlier this week lasted more than 30 hours - an incident that has led some customers to call for compensation. -- PHOTO: AFP By Royston Sim & Leow Si Wan Singtel has revealed that the disruption in its 3G mobile networ...

A Cambodian man says his young grandson has lived partly on milk he suckles directly from a cow since the boy's parents left their rural village in search of work. --PHOTO: AP KOAK ROKA, Cambodia (AP) - A Cambodian man says his young grandson has lived partly on milk he suckles direct...

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A US Air Force Viper West demo team F-16 Falcon. During the 9/11 attacks 10 years ago, F-16 pilot Heather Penney said she was prepared to ram her plane into a hijacked aircraft barrelling towards Washington DC. -- PHOTO: REUTERS WASHINGTON (AFP) - An F-16 pilot scrambled on 9/11 to pr...

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If you watch the video I put up in the last posting, you will hear Mr. Lee explaining why we need so many foreign workers because our TFR (Total Fertility Rate) has fallen to 1.01 per couple. He said that Singaporeans needs 60,000 foreigners per year to keep our workforce young and if...

Singapore was presented with a double bill feature on censorship this month. There was the Wikileaked diplomatic cable reporting that young reporters felt frustrated by newsroom gatekeepers. And there was Tan Tarn How’s play, Fear Of Writing , staged by TheatreWorks. Between the two, ...

The Western world's knowledge of history of the world is faulty. Their knowledge cites Inca's, Greeks, Sumerians, Egypt, Abyssinians, Mesopotamia etc. etc. as the most ancients. The other countries of the world follows their this knowledge except INDIA. We have, from time immemorial, ...

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[Infographic][U.S.] Unemployment By The Numbers Posted by Daniel Goh on 9/10/11 • Categorized as Others So we all know that the recent financial crisis has left a devastating wake on the American economy – and especially on unemployment – but how bad was it, really? Here’s an infograp...

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Besides the screening of bags to the standards that Changi Airport wants to put in place, it is also training all front-line staff to spot suspicious behaviour. -- ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANG By Karamjit Kaur, Aviation Correspondent All bags that are transferred from one flight to another at...

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Miss Singapore Universe 2011 Valerie Lim pre-tapes in her national costume onstage at Credicard Hall in Sao Paulo on Sept 7, 2011. The contestants are in Sao Paulo for the 2011 Miss Universe pageant which will be held on Sept 12. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

At the launch of the event at Jurong Regional Library today, the Minister of State for Education Lawrence Wong noted that the linguistic environment here is complex with many being more comfortable speaking in their mother tongue languages or Singlish. -- ST PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN...

In a changing political landscape, the People's Action Party (PAP) has to connect, to represent and to lead the people - all at the same time, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said. -- ST PHOTO: TED CHEN By Elgin Toh In a changing political landscape, the People's Action Party (PAP) has...

In this file photograph taken on May 30, 2005, an Indian man prepares chewing tobacco, ghutka. -- PHOTO: AFP MUMBAI (AFP) - Shafique Sheikh was not a big name in the Indian film industry and few would have heard of him outside Malegaon, his home town in the western state of Maharashtr...

TNP PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: Gavin Foo WHEN she realised she had to sit for her O-level mathematics paper on the day after Deepavali, her heart sank. Not again, thought Secondary 4 student S. Sandhiya, 15. Three years ago, her brother was in her position. He sat for his O-level combined-hu...

The HDB says it is a challenge to match supply with demand as land is limited and it needs to balance the needs of other residents. -- ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN By Christopher Tan, Senior Correspondent If you find it tougher to park in a Housing Board estate these days, or have diffic...

TOKYO (AP) - An air traffic controller at Tokyo's Haneda Airport faces possible punishment after posting confidential information on his blog, including the flight plan for President Barack Obama's visit to Japan last year, news reports said Saturday. The controller, identified only a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A dead NASA satellite will soon fall to Earth, but the space agency says there is very little chance that a piece of it will hit someone. NASA says the 20-year-old satellite will probably fall sometime between late September and October. Pieces of it could land anywh...

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Racing on a track that has been a challenge for Red Bull in the past, Sebastian Vettel secured the pole position Saturday for the Italian Grand Prix with relative ease. -- PHOTO: REUTERS MONZA, Italy (AP) - Racing on a track that has been a challenge for Red Bull in the past, Sebastia...

Baked Bone Marrow with Persillade and Sourdough Toast $16 I recently had the pleasure of being hosted by chef Daniel Sia and his team at The Disgruntled Chef on Dempsey Hill. Situated in a cheerful little colonial era one-storey that used to house no more than four British junior offi...

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The highest breathalyser result from the offenders - who were between 20 and 52 years of age - clocked in at 86 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, almost twice the prescribed limit. -- ST PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN By Daryl Chin Despite the high number of drink dri...

ROGERS, Arkansas: World number 1 Yani Tseng of Taiwan closed with an eagle to fire a five-under par 66 and grab a share of the lead after Friday's first round of the 54-hole LPGA Northwest Arkansas Championship. Defending champion Tseng, seeking her eighth worldwide triumph of the yea...

Officers from the Public Transport Security Command (TransCom) watching over commuters at City Hall and Raffles Place MRT stations. TransCom was commissioned on Aug 15, 2009 to oversee policing efforts throughout the entire public bus and rail network. The unit now has more than 400 p...

Here's something you don't see everyday -- this ambulance was engulfed in flame at a carpark next to Geylang Methodist Primary School. The flames were so intense that they soon spread to three nearby cars as well. STOMPers Chang , Ng , Teo , Eric, Jane Lim and FireonAmbulance sent in ...

France piled on 22 points in the last 10 minutes to beat Japan 47-21 after a stuttering start to their World Cup campaign. -- PHOTO: AP AUCKLAND (AP) - France piled on 22 points in the last 10 minutes to beat Japan 47-21 after a stuttering start to their World Cup campaign. Two-time f...

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SINGAPORE: There are still two more weeks to the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix and hotel rooms in the Marina Bay area are almost all snapped up. Reservations started early with some guests even booking immediately after the last F1 race as hotels are expecting occupancy rates of ab...